Release: VHBL for Vita 2.60 by Acid_Snake and Qwikrazor87

Important note: at the time of this writing, it seems the games are still available in the US store. If you’re in another country and missed the exploits there (they have been removed at least in EU), you can create a US account (explanation here) and buy some US PSN Credit from Amazon (explanation here) to get the games in the US.

At this point I must admit that I’m lost about the ins and outs about this recent exploit announce for the Vita 2.60, but I’ll state what I know: the exploit (or at least part of it, since the same exploit is available in several games from the same company) was most likely found by several hackers, and several of them worked independently on porting VHBL to it.

Acid_Snake precised to me that many hackers found this exploit independently, and that most of them worked together in order to keep the secret. The first public announce (a few days ago, on another website) of the exploits which triggered this “messy” release has been confirmed to not be a leak, just poor communication from other devs who were working independently on the exploit. The whole thing was in the end just a sad coincidence, but we’ll try to give more precisions about this in a further article.

Nevertheless, what we are releasing exclusively today is what I believe to be the most advanced and highest quality VHBL ports available for these exploits, following Acid_Snake’s announce yesterday. Not that I think other VHBL ports around here for the Arcade Dart exploits are bad, but because I’ve personally worked close enough with Acid_Snake and Qwikrazor87 over the past few months that I trust their skills, experience and the amount of beta testing their work has gone through. At the end of the day, a VHBL port still involves some craftsmanship and I’ll trust people with experience (Qwikrazor had done an incredible job on the 2.12 release not so long ago) more than anyone else.

That being said, know that other VHBL ports for this exploit are floating around the interwebs, and you might want to give them a try if this release is not satisfying to you, for one reason or another. We just won’t offer the same amount of support for these “other” releases than we can offer for Acid_snake’s work.

While I’m at it, for other hackers who made a VHBL port of this, let me remind everyone that VHBL is released under the gplv3 license, and that if you distribute binaries, you should distribute your sources as well. Beyond all the drama, let’s please respect the open source license of the original HBL/VHBL creators who, for the most part, have nothing to do with any of the recent mess.

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Hmm, now that this is out of the way, I am proud to release the files for VHBL on Vita 2.60, from Acid_Snake and Qwikrazor87. Credits go to (copy/pasted from Acid_Snake’s announcement):

– Acid_Snake, who originally found the exploits in Pool Hall Pro and World of Pool.

– Frostegater, who found the same exploit in Arcade Darts, confirming that more than one game had the same vulnerability.

– qwikrazor87, who ported VHBL to Arcade Airhockey and Bowling, as well as his great work in the community.

– The Z, for confirming the games’ availability in all stores.

– All of Console Heaven’s VIP members, who kept this exploit hidden for so much time.

– Fate6 and gdljjrod, who pointed out that Pool Hall Pro was secretly patched in 2.60

– Total_Noob and the PRO Team for their great work on the scene.

– Wololo, who made the initial VHBL port of Pool Hall Pro a possibility and his great work in the scene.

These files will let you run homebrews on a Vita 2.60, as long as you own a legit copy of one of the following games:

Arcade Darts

Arcade Airhockey & Bowling

World of Pool

Arcade Pool (also known as Arcade Pool & Snooker in Europe)

Donations

If you enjoy this work, please consider making a donation to Acid_Snake here, or to Qwikrazor here. Thanks for them

Download, install, and run

The Download links are on our VHBL page, as usual. Install and run instructions can be found there as well. (there are lots of files here, so apologies in advance if I messed up a link or two. Just kindly let me know if anything goes wrong, and I’ll fix it asap!).

All 4 games are removed from EU store. I got the Arcade Sports Bundle Arcade Darts still appears in my download list for download only. Also Arcade Sports Bundle still shows on the store but you can’t download it.

guys i have a problem. i’ve installed openCMA (by moving to cma folder and clicking run.bat in admin mode), but when i close and reopen it it’s still prompting me to update. i can’t connect and transfer. (US version) anyone else with this problem? is it safe to update it?

Snes doesnt work,i put roms in the main ROMS folder and nothing shows up when you try to run the games,is this sopose to be a joke!!! i waste 2 dolars for something that doesnt work!!!!!!.First time i got a homebrew in vita and im disapointed Acid.

There’s never a guarantee that all homebrews will work with vhbl. Befor everything else, ask for guidance in the forums, maybe another version will work. Nobody put a gun at your face to make you buy the game.

Sir, please calm yourself. You are obviously ill informed, and have no idea how hard it is to program files and be able to make home brew work. They did not promise anything or everything would work, they tried damn hard to just get something to work and you have the audacity to ***? Tell you what, you find an exploit, you program homebrew, and you do the compatibility list with the ninja releases and all the effort and hard work they put in just to HELP people for the sake of homebrew and fun.

VHBL page: “This is a known issue, and happens only as long as you don’t have any homebrew installed. To get rid of this error message, press the LEFT TRIGGER on your console, this will force wMenu to go to the SAVEDATA subfolder.”

Picodrive doesnt work,snes doesnt work,nesternj doesnt work and gba doesnt work,the only thing that works here are those stupid games like CS that i hate,wagic,gems,arcanoid and others no emulators this time,no roms shows up the emulators main menu works but why bother to see that main menu,well then now that the ps store is now online i will finish download DOA5+ and while downloading play Ninja gaiden sigma 2 plus.

Damn this sucks ***, it was available an hour ago so i rush to the nearest gamestop, buy a $20 psn card and go home and poof they’re gone……that sucks, Im sad but what can i do hopefully another exploited game will come out before the year is over. Thanks anyways Acid_Snake and Wololo.

The pass is belial666,put it in ps vita and then find the route of your psv games like this for example: PSAVEDATA\b3b96ac006844c62 and inside that folder put the folder i upload to mega (b3b96ac006844c62 this folder might be diferent so dont worry if it doesnt show the same name that i have).After that use CMA and then pc to ps vita system,last option store save or something like that i have it on spanish that’s why i dont know what it says,is the option below playstation mobile to be more especific,then enter PSPTM/Others and then you will see a save data for Arcade darts,copy that to your ps vita and you will have the game save to run the exploit then just download the homebrew you want and copy them like you do with the save file of arcade darts.Here the emulators with some roms:https://mega.co.nz/#!P9B0kJgT!F32ORSkz5I0v4n7ED84uJwuetUsqvVRteXa2UWPEExg nes roms were random i dont like Barbie games at all XD.And here a video example of how to put in the vita,the rest follow the video instructions.

THANK YOU ALL…. by the time i finished work all the games were pulled, wait, whats this? for the SECOND time i have lucked out and already purchased this game months ago,but deleted it. oh no it has been removed from my download list, good thing i have it backed up on my PS3. YAY!!! thanx again!

I believe all the games have been removed from the US store. That really sucks I’ve been waiting for this as it was the only reason I bought my vita…looks like i was just a little behind. Great work Acid!

Yup, all of the games have been pulled in the US. And, with that I am now officially DONE with the Vita. I just bought an Nvidia Sheild from Gamestop yesterday. And, it absolutely blows the Vita away completely on every level as far as emulation goes. It even emulates NDS and PSP games at fullspeed.

No more drama and no more headaches. No more CMA ***. Just connect to PC and drag and drop. Good luck everybody!

very good work. compatibility is stuff to check, but overall it works fine. I think there is a issue when VHBL tries to assign/free memory, so the thing is just retry (or just shutdown/power PSViTA and do it again)

Congrats!

BTW. is there a way to “transfer” already buyed game to another system?

I got the arcade air hockey and bowling, but when I go to transfer it to my ps vita, it doesn’t show up in my menu under psp titles. Using the opencma pc ps3 swap trick. Is Sony somehow blocking the game from installing on my vita? I also noticed that the game is missing from my download list. And yes it is on my ps3 in bubble form and hasn’t been installed. Any thoughts or suggestions.

hey guys I’ll be selling my ps vita with VHBL, 32gb memory stick,3 games, a controller type grip and more extras. I will post it on ebay. My store ID is 2020_worldwide_services if you’re interested. I will post it tomorrow.